Researchers from Pritzker Molecular Engineering, under the guidance of Prof. Jeffrey Hubbell, demonstrated that their compound can eliminate the autoimmune response linked to multiple sclerosis. Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) have developed

  • bioemerl
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    -3110 months ago

    People should be allowed full decision over the treatments they want to get, no matter how arbitrary, stupid, or contradictory. To suggest otherwise is a horrific dystopia

    • @Zexks@lemm.ee
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      5110 months ago

      Bullshit. You don’t get a new kidney and get to keep on drinking.

      • @thantik@lemmy.world
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        No, he’s right. They SHOULD be allowed full decision over the treatments they want to get.

        However, those decisions should not be free from the rules we as a society have put in place.

        Us banning COVID vaccine deniers this treatment could be a good compromise. They freely get to decide, and they also suffer the consequences of that decision. Win/Win.

        • @Fedizen@lemmy.world
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          1610 months ago

          this is honestly why I thought vaccine cards to sit at restaurants, attend concerts… These are good ideas.

          • @Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world
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            310 months ago

            We do this in Australia for kindergarten, if your kids aren’t vaccinated you don’t get the childcare subsidy.

            For reference, the subsidy can be the difference between paying $200 a week and $1200 a week.

          • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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            -210 months ago

            Right. I don’t care if COViD deniers chose not to get a vaccine. I care that they endanger people who want or need to be more careful. Let them make the choice, as long as the rest of us can choose not to be exposed to them

            • @Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world
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              210 months ago

              So people with autoimmune deficiency can choose to just hide indoors or die, because selfish pond scum spend too much time on Facebook?

              Nah, that’s the wrong way around. Meet the basic expectations of society or accept you will be excluded from it.

              • Polar
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                210 months ago

                Literally me. I’ve been locked inside since 2020 because I had a double lung transplant and COVID will most likely cause my lungs to reject, and I die.

                Assholes refusing to put a damn n95 mask on has pretty much thrown my life away. My transplanted lungs wont last forever. My final years are locked indoors because a fucking mask is political.

      • squiblet
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        910 months ago

        Do you mean liver? That’s the organ alcohol primarily harms. Kidneys are somewhat secondary.

      • bioemerl
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        Yeah, because kidneys are a rare and valuable thing what drinking would prevent from working

        That makes zero sense for your petty ass sense of vengeance by denying people easily manufactured treatments because they turned down a vaccine you think they should have gotten.

        • @Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
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          010 months ago

          That most of society thinks they should have gotten. That results in other people dying if they don’t get it.

          GTFO of here acting like your right to a fist doesn’t end where my nose begins.

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              010 months ago

              so·ci·e·ty

              /səˈsīədē/

              noun

              the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.

              • @pirat@lemmy.world
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                09 months ago

                Thank you for proving my point.

                To be clear, societies exist regardless of the existence of states. The fact that states are trying to control societies and communities doesn’t make any state “The Society”… Society is people.

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      2010 months ago

      Yes, you do get to decide the treatments you want to get. Nobody is forcing any treatments on you. But just like freedom of speech, it doesn’t mean freedom from consequences of that speech. Too stupid and didn’t want to participate in saving your fellow human? Well, said fellow humans don’t want to participate in saving you either.

    • @richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one
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      1510 months ago

      If that decision contributes to the spread of a pandemic, they can keep they cherished decisions behind bars in a quarantined prison.

    • @jimbo@lemmy.world
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      510 months ago

      Oh no, the dystopia of having to get a vaccine to prevent the spread of dangerous disease to your fellow human beings. The horror.

      • bioemerl
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        210 months ago

        The dystopia of arbitrarily punishing people with inability to get things that would literally cure their diabetes because they refused a vaccine